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The first days back at school have some kids pondering rugs, storage, mirrors, lighting, photo frames ... and no, we’re not talking college kids and dorm rooms. We mean elementary-school lockers! Serious businesses have sprung up to serve the locker-augmentation market, including lockerlookz.com and luvurlocker.com, which allow kids to virtually superimpose their choices on an online locker to curate their final design. We recommend involving any/all lockermates in these deliberations — yours might prefer the whimsicality of the lime-green marabou-trimmed disco ball over the classic black-beaded locker chandelier. A matte gray palette, slamming metal doors — is this...

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